Hairdressing instrument



June 22, 1948- J. GIARRATANO HAIRDRESSING INSTRUMENT Filed Feb. 19, 1946 Patented June 22, 1948 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HAIRDRESSING INSTRUMENT Joseph Giarratano, Babylon, N. Y.

Application February 19, 1946, Serial No. 648,600

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a combination instrumentality comprising a casing having a comb mounted therein, the said comb being retractable within the casing or operative so that the teeth of the comb will project beyond the outer surface of the casing; and furthermore, the device includes a retractable hair curling form on which ringlets of hair may be applied in the process of hair setting, the form when not in use bein nested within the casing and held therein by friction, as will presently appear, so that through the presence of the readily accessible comb and ringlet forming extension or form, a time saving device is at hand for the manipulation of an operator.

An object of this invention is to provide a tubular casing having a longitudinally extending slot, through which the teeth of the comb protrude when the said comb is set for operation in connection with the casing, which tubular casing is manipulated as a handle for the comb and for the curling form,

A further object of the invention is to produce a combined tool or implement of the character indicated which has proven efficient and satisfactory in use by hair dressers, and which is comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, referrence will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which:

Figure 1 illustrates a view in side elevation of the external casing with parts associated therewith in dotted lines;

Figure 2 illustrates a sectional view showing the comb mounting and controlling means and the curling form extended; and

Figure 3 illustrates a plan view of the casing showing the slot in which the screw for holding the curling form is held adjusted.

In these drawings, I denotes a tubular casing tapered in opposite directions from the center towards the ends 2 and 3 and, in practice, this casing may be of any of the well known plastic compositions suitable for t e P 1 8- A com body or head 4 is oscillatably mounted in the tubular casing on a pivot 5 extending transversely through the wall of the tubular casing. The comb has appropriate teeth 6 graduated in length from one end to the other, the said length following the taper of the wall of the tubular casing so that the teeth project a suitable distance beyond the wall when it is in position for operation. A tail-piece or flange I is integral with the body 4 of the comb, and it is preferably angular on its lower surface 8 so that a camming surface is produced, which camming surface is engaged by a spring 3 having a portion anchored to the interior of the tubular casing, as at Ill, the said spring having a free end which bears against the under surface 8 and rides thereon to move the comb inwardly on its pivot so that it is housed within the tubular casing as shown in dotted lines, Figure 1. When the comb is to be moved into operative position, the tail-piece I is engaged by a screw I l which forces the tail-piece downwardly and carries the teeth of the comb into operative position, in which it is shown in Figure 2.

The casing is provided with a longitudinal slot 12 in which a screw [3 is slidable, the said screw being anchored in a threaded aperture M of the curling form I5, it being shown that the curling form is tapered to the angle of the interior of the tubular casing and that when it is projected as it is shown in Fig. 2, the head of the screw I3 is caused to frictionally engage the outer surface of the tubular member and thereby the curling form is held projected so that ringlets of hair may be wound thereon while the hair dressing proceeds.

It is obvious that the comb and curling form, carried as they are by the tubular casing, provides a convenient assembly of effective parts as used by hair dressing artists.

I claim:

A hair dressing instrument comprising a tubular casing, the said tubular casing having a slot in its wall, a comb oscillatably mounted in the casing and having teeth projectable from the casing through the said slot, a tail-piece on the said comb having an end portion angularly disposed with relation to its other portion, the said end portion having a camming lower surface, a spring in the casing having a free end bearing against the camming surface of the tail-piece and operative to force the tail-piece upwardly for retracting the teeth of the comb, and a screw threaded in the wall of the tubular casing bearing against the tail-piece on the side thereof opposite the cam whereby the tail-piece of the comb is pressed against the action of the spring.

JOSEPH GIARRATANO.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 17,103 Lewis Apr. 21, 1857 411,028 Heysinger Sept. 17, 1889 2,245,054 Schlicker June 10, 1941 

